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What If This Doesn’t Work? – Episode 193 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
What a payoff! Layers and layers of all sorts of foam, 'glass, epoxy, and fairing compound have come to this big reveal of how this refrigerated chest will look when it goes into the boat—covered in contrasting cherry wood. Before then, though, it did se...
BARGE BUILD. We are STUCK. What should we do now???? Sailing Ocean Fox Ep196
#thingsgowrong #weareinfected #notravel #theend As we come to the end of the year, we pack up to go off to Portugal. But just as we throught we were safe to go, everything goes wrong and we are STUCK. First France is stoping the British to go through their...
Norna Needs a Captain – Episode 192 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
After all the fiberglass, foam, and fairing compound from the last few weeks, we get to the pretty stuff for the custom refrigerator (oh heck maybe with a bit more of all of that, too): the drop-in lids are topped with cherry and cherry burl, and they're m...
Cutting the DAM Worktop! We finally finished our beautiful galley. Sailing Ocean Fox Ep 195
#galleyonboats #boatjobs #kitchen This week we finally finish the kitchen and cut the worktop as we have a TV crew coming from the kitchen supplier. They absolutely loved the idea of having their kitchen on a boat that came to interview us about the whole...
Sealing Up the Fridge – Episode 191 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
There are a lot of steps to each of the things we do on Arabella, especially in the interior, and between those multiple paint coats drying, that epoxy curing, and intense reading about 12 V DC electrical systems, there's plenty to do around and about to p...
BARGE BUILD. F R E E Z I N G. Below zero in bikini! Sailing Ocean Fox Ep194
#freezingcold # bellowzeroweather #coldoutside #snowfall This week the first snow of the season has fallen and it is freezing. We try to get in to working but the cold does get to us. But we do get some work finished in the rear cabin, the electrics ar...
A Little Help From the Masters – Episode 190 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
"Before the snow flies," is a busy time around a farm, and this year it involves improvements to the shed, fixing Akiva's platform, and doing a few other labor-intensive tasks for which we had a passionate group of volunteers to help with. Thank you very m...
BARGE BUILD. How big is our Solar System? Solar Power on river boats. Sailing Ocean Fox Ep193
#solarpanels #solaronboats #victronenergy #electricboats This week we connect the solar panels to the cables and talk about the equipment me will be installing for the solar set up on the barge. The kitchen installation is nearly done. We are finishing ...
Bringing Home the Fiberglass – Episode 189 – Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat
The finishing touches go onto the shower pan, which gets a drain installed, and the anchor locker, which gets an outlet for gunk that might make its way via the anchor chain. Two-part epoxy paint serves as yet another waterproof barrier for these pieces, w...
BARGE BUILD. Kitchen Fitters.How are we getting on with that job??? Sailing Ocean Fox Ep192
#galleyonboats #newgalley #boatbuilding This week we really do get stuck in to the kitchen, but as always we never seem to finish the job. It has been a little more difficult than we expected. The fridge and freezer will be delivered next Tuesday so It wi...
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